Day: May 26, 2019

Devin Haney Delivers Knockout of the Year Candidate on DAZN

OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 25, 2019 - Undefeated lightweight sensation Devin Haney capped off an action-packed evening of boxing on DAZN from the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, with a stunning seventh-round knockout. Making his DAZN debut, Haney (22-0, 14 KOs) impressed a raucous crowd with his highlight-reel stoppage of Mexico's Antonio Moran (24-4, 17 KOs). In the heavyweight co-feature of the evening, Croatia's Filip Hrgovic (8-0, 6 KOs) scored a brutal first-round technical knockout against Gregory Corbin (15-2, 9 KOs) of Dallas, Texas. Michael Hunter (17-1, 12 KOs) of Las Vegas kicked off the evening's main card in dramatic fashion with a scintillating second-round technical knockout victory over Brazil's Fabio Maldonado (26-3, 25 KOs) to continue his unbeaten streak at heavyweight. Read more [...]

Tingen WBF Intercontinental Champ, Brown Wins International

Undefeated Dutch Champion Ben Tingen added the World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Cruiserweight title to his resume on Saturday night, May 25, at De Bonte Wever in Assen, Netherlands, beating Bosnian Ervin Dzinic. The fight was evenly contested and action-packed as long as it lasted, with both men landing hurtful punches, but when Tingen connected with a body-shot followed up by a right hand to the head and a left hook to the shoulder, Dzinic went down in agony. Claiming injury to the shoulder, Dzinic was unable to continue, forcing referee Mafudel Elghazaoui to count him out and wave the fight off at 0:58 of the fourth round to declare Tingen the new champion with a record of 10-0-1 (8). Dzinic falls to 7-3 (2). At the Big Punch Arena in Tijuana, Mexico, also on Saturday Read more [...]